Something in Common: Life Beyond the City
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Outer space arkitekter AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 160 280 |
| Project duration | November 2024 - September 2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities |
| Call | Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities |
Purpose and goal
Something in Common: Life Beyond the City wants to document, speculate about and develop future visions for the 98% of Sweden´s surface that is not urbanized, based on contemporary signals that point to the countryside´s potential and its central role in a sustainable transition for all. The project uses Tranemo Kommun as a test bed and Väveriet in Uddebo as a starting point and location for a public exhibition, co-created together with local residents, about life in the countryside in 2040.
Expected effects and result
To challenge the prevailing urban-centered view of quality and efficiency and spark conversations about the countryside´s potential as a place for and key actor in sustainable transformations.
Planned approach and implementation
Something in Common: Life Beyond the City is divided into four phases/work packages, with one actor each as the main responsible together with the coordinating project partner: Phase 1 - Signal reconnaissance and "Setting-design” Fas 2 - Scenarios and Test/Cases Fas 3 - Exhibition design and Production Fas 4 - Exhibitionz Epilog - Compilation, Evaluation, Publication